Aren't my titles clever? Tonight I am a very happy Jersey girl. I am back in the Garden State for the weekend and could not be more thrilled! I traveled on a jet plane out of Columbus International Airport this afternoon, and an hour and a half later I landed at LaGuardia Airport in NYC. After my dad and I faced a little bit of miscommunication, (I thought I was in terminal C, turns out I was in B) I was on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) heading home. Now I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve been a little overwhelmed and stressed this past week. You could say I’ve been a tad emotional. But my eyes literally welled up when I got in my dad’s car, and I do not think I was being overdramatic. I have not been home in 6 weeks and 5 days! Yes I’ve been keeping track. For me, that’s a very long time.
I’m not ashamed to say that when I’m at school, sometimes I miss home. Not in an “I miss my mommy” way (although mom, I do miss you when I’m at school!). It's more of a I want to go back to the place where my life makes sense feeling. Maybe that does not make sense to any of you, but it makes sense to me. All of my hard work will eventually lead me back to this area. Not Pt. Pleasant, but definitely New York City. Everything I'm doing right now - the lack of sleep, the 500 pages of reading a night, and the endless papers - is all focusing on achieving one simple goal - Manhattan. I want to spend the rest of my life on that tiny island, so you can imagine the overwhelming surge of joy I experience when I cast my eyes on it after 6 weeks and 5 days. Everything I've been doing in Ohio has been preparing me for the next chapter in my life, which begins in less than 4 months. This is the place I belong. This is the place where everything falls into place. I know what is important in my life, and what's not, and nothing it going to get in the way of me reaching my dreams.
It feels so good to be back! Even in my little beach town of Pt. Pleasant. Everything stays pretty constant, and that's the way I love it. I got in a little tiff with mom tonight (I’m still not exactly sure what I did ☺) and that makes me feel happy. Not because I enjoy frustrating my mom – although sometimes it’s quite easy for me to do – but because it shows that distance does not change anything. I’m home for 1 hour and get kicked out of the living room. That’s love people! Nothing really changes. It feels nice.
Tonight, I’m a tired Jersey girl. I’m sitting on the couch with my cat Bubbles watching Evan Lysacek skate for gold (Go USA), and loving every minute of it. I’m looking forward to having an amazing weekend and resting up before I go back to blast out the last 3 weeks of winter quarter! Tune in for my next couple of posts to see what Broadway show I end up seeing on Saturday. Hair is the front-runner. In The Heights is in a close second. I hope you all have as wonderful of a weekend as I plan on having!
UPDATE: Evan Lysacek just won GOLD for USA. He had a truly amazing performance. So well deserved!!! Bubbles is pleased.
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Katie Dearest:
ReplyDeleteIn 1977 & 1978, my Rutger's professors who tried to brainwash us with the mantra "Reality is created by agreement!" (i.e. That is it's only bad behavior because some group of stupid people said so; free love rules baby!") That class was "Ginsberg & the Beat Generation. Then - and I'm not kidding - there was the Women's Study course where we were forced to read the book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves," aloud in front of the class! I was still in love with The Sound of Music for gosh sakes!! -(I challenge you to go to Barnes & Noble and look that book up...). If I ever came home and shared some of the offensive pictures in those books with my brothers, both my parents would have grounded me for a month, (forget it - they would have killed me). AND since I'm the tail-end of my Grandmother's generation, I might have shared it... but I would not have done so IN FRONT OF MY BELOVED MOM!!!! So PLEASEEEEE... If cousins want to weigh in here to defend Kate - go for it, but where exactly will you have dinner this Thanksgiving??!
Love - The Mom Who Kicks Kids Out of Her Living Room When Their Brains Stops Working!
Love you, Honey.
thanks mom. I'm glad we cleared that up!
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